In force

Law No. 5-A/2026 of 28 January — in force since 27 July 2026.

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Services

Five professional services covering the full compliance cycle of Law No. 5-A/2026 (Lei n.º 5-A/2026) — from the first diagnostic to ongoing monitoring. Each service is summarised below; the detailed technical sheets are available in Portuguese.

Service catalogue

Our positioning is clear: we do not merely interpret the framework — we implement it. Each service is built on a concrete legal obligation of Law No. 5-A/2026 and can be contracted individually or in sequence, as a complete compliance journey.

Regulatory Diagnostic and Impact Assessment

The starting point for any organisation that interacts with public entities. We survey your institutional relations activities and confront them with the definition of legitimate interest representation (representação legítima de interesses) in Article 2(1), the included activities of Article 2(2) and the exclusions of Article 2(3). The result is a structured impact report: whether you are covered, in which registrant category of Article 13(3) you fall, which duties apply, and a prioritised compliance plan with responsibilities and timelines. The diagnostic is designed for boards, legal departments and public affairs teams that need a defensible answer to the question "does this law apply to us, and what must we do first?"

RTRI Registration Support

Assisted registration in the Transparency Register of Interest Representation (Registo de Transparência da Representação de Interesses — RTRI). We gather and verify every element required by Article 5(1) — corporate identification, clients and interests represented, corporate bodies and share capital, the responsible person and annual income — assemble the supporting dossier and accompany the filing. Special attention goes to the 60-day registration window for professional representatives of third-party interests once the RTRI becomes operational (Article 19(2)) and to the internal circuit that keeps data updated within 30 days (Article 5(4)). Delivered in articulation with the specialised domain rtri.pt.

Compliance and Code of Conduct Implementation

Design and installation of the internal compliance apparatus that the law presupposes: an interest representation policy, procedures for institutional contacts and identification with the RTRI number (Article 7(1)), the record of contractual relationships for professional representatives (Article 7(2)), meeting and hearing logs aligned with the disclosure rules of Article 8, and adherence to the Code of Conduct (Código de Conduta) annexed to the law (Article 15(1)). Everything is documented, proportionate to your structure and auditable — because breaches can lead to suspension of registration or of institutional contacts for up to 2 years (Article 11(1)).

Compliance Documentation Toolkit

For organisations that prefer to start from standardised instruments, the toolkit provides a coherent set of ready-to-adapt templates: interest representation policy, declaration and identification models, registers of contacts and contractual relationships, checklists for the data required by Article 5(1) and for the duties of Article 7, and guidance notes on the Code of Conduct (Article 15). Each document identifies the article that grounds it, so your organisation can demonstrate, before any interlocutor, why it does what it does. The toolkit can be deployed autonomously or as the documentary layer of the implementation service.

Ongoing Advisory and Monitoring

Compliance does not end with registration. Our recurring advisory keeps your organisation permanently conformant: management of the declarative calendar and of updates within 30 days (Article 5(4)), preparation and follow-up of hearings in view of the quarterly disclosure of meetings (Article 8(3)), periodic conformity checks, and regulatory watch over the developments still to come — the statute on the governance and management model of the RTRI (Article 14) and the review of the law three years after its entry into force (Article 20). You receive alerts, briefings and direct access to the team whenever a decision touches the framework.

Technical sheets

The full technical sheets — scope, deliverables, methodology, phases, indicative duration and investment — are published in Portuguese.

Service catalogue with links to the Portuguese technical sheets
Service Main legal basis Technical sheet
Regulatory Diagnostic and Impact Assessment Articles 2, 3 and 13(3) Open sheet (detailed sheet in Portuguese) →
RTRI Registration Support Articles 4, 5 and 19(2) Open sheet (detailed sheet in Portuguese) →
Compliance and Code of Conduct Implementation Articles 7, 8, 11 and 15 Open sheet (detailed sheet in Portuguese) →
Compliance Documentation Toolkit Articles 5, 7 and 15 Open sheet (detailed sheet in Portuguese) →
Ongoing Advisory and Monitoring Articles 5(4), 8(3), 14 and 20 Open sheet (detailed sheet in Portuguese) →

Indicative investment values in the technical sheets are marked as [values to be confirmed by commercial management]. Training associated with the services is described on the Training page.

Need a proposal?

Tell us the service you need — or describe your situation — and you will receive a structured proposal with scope, phases and timeline.

This information is of a general nature and does not constitute legal advice. English renderings are unofficial; the authentic text is the Portuguese version published in the Diário da República.